I'm sitting in a room,
Made up of only big white walls and in the halls
There are people looking through
The window in the door, and they know exactly what we're here for.
Don't look up
Just let them think
There's no place else
You'd rather be.
You're always on display
For everyone to watch and learn from,
Don't you know by now,
You can't turn back
Because this road is all you'll ever have.
And it's obvious that your dying, dying.
Just living proof that the camera's lying.
And oh oh open wide, 'cause this is your night.
So smile, 'cause you'll go out in style.
You'll go out in style.
If you let me I could,
I'd show you how to build your fences,
Set restrictions, separate from the world.
The constant battle that you hate to fight,
Just blame the limelight.
There is a quote; "In a crowded room, I still feel so alone."
Maybe from one of those muggle songs.
But it's so true. I feel so lonely as I stand in the living room of The Burrow.
People who are offering empty words or empathy and fake smiles of sympathy. People who tell me, "I understand what you're going through." But the truth is, they don't. No-one does. The only possible people who could, are dead.
I don't know how to feel. These people made my childhood go from a kid with no parents, to a criminal child who's parents were drunks and got themselves killed. But the Dursley's loved me in their own way.
They helped me get my mind off everything, because they knew that's what I needed.
They gave me chores to keep my hands busy. They got me to work in the kitchen so the heat would distract me from the truth. They didn't let me out of the house because they knew that I didn't want to see anything that would remind me of Sirius and when he came to Surrey on the second year / third year holidays.
But that knowledge died with them, and now I'm being hounded by people who think they know what's best. Who think that I need to talk about what happened with not only Sirius, but with their deaths as well.
But I don't.
They had come out of nowhere.
One second I was tailing the Dursley's on the one trip they made me come, the next we're surrounded by people in black robes and silver masks on their faces.
They pull out their wands before I can even shout out a warning.
Green light shoots towards the Dursley's as I watch helplessly. One of the Death Eaters looked me dead in the eye and snarled, "Just a warning for those who think the saviour can save them, just like he saved his relatives." then mocked me cruelly, "Oh yeah, you couldn't."
Then, they dissapparated with a crack.
Those people who I once called friends, I once called family, they pat me on the back and smile heartily, "Well, at least you won't have to go back their next summer."
Don't look up
Just let them think
There's no place else
You'd rather be.
And now you can't turn back
Because this road is all you'll ever have.
And it's obvious that you're dying, dying.
Just living proof that the camera's lying.
And oh oh open wide, 'cause this is your night.
So smile.
Yeah, yeah you're asking for it
With every breath that you breathe in
Just breathe it in.
Yeah, yeah well you're just a mess
You do all this big talking
So now let's see you walk it.
I said let's see you walk it.
Yeah, yeah well you're just a mess
You do all this big talking
So now let's see you walk it.
I said let's see you walk it.
And it's obvious that you're dying, dying.
Just living proof that the camera's lying.
And oh oh open wide, yeah oh oh open wide.
Yeah, oh oh open wide,
'Cause you'll go out in style.
You'll go out in style.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fences by Paramore or Harry Potter by J K Rowling.
This is a story that goes with my other one shot Cut that centers around Draco. I may write a third component of them together. Happy New Years (as it is 2010 in Australia).
Tashie xo